WH ignores illegal crosser crediting Biden for allowing him in US, wouldn’t have come if Trump was president

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas instructed “Fox News Sunday” that the inflow of migrants crossing the border is as a result of Trump administration’s actions, not coverage modifications that befell in the early days of President Biden‘s administration.

Mayorkas made the comment moments earlier than a South American migrant who lately crossed the U.S.-Mexico border instructed ABC “This Week” anchor Martha Raddatz that he did so “basically” as a result of Joe Biden was elected president and wouldn’t have tried to cross below former President Donald Trump.

Asked whether or not he wished to revise his earlier comment in gentle of the extensively circulated interview, Mayorkes’ workplace selected to not handle it, emphasizing as an alternative his preliminary remarks the place he burdened the U.S.-Mexico Border’s “closed status.”

“Chris, we do expel families. We are working with Mexico to increase Mexico’s capacity to receive the expelled families,” Mayorkes instructed Fox News host Chris Wallace earlier Sunday. “The border is secure, the border is closed. We’ve been unequivocal in that and we are operationalizing our processes, executing our plans, we are a nation of laws and we treat vulnerable children humanely,” he mentioned. “We can do it and we are doing it.”

MAYORKES BLAMES MIGRANT SURGE ON TRUMP ADMIN

Biden has scrapped plenty of Trump’s insurance policies which included having asylum seekers stay in Mexico as an alternative of staying in the U.S. whereas they wait for their instances to be heard. Despite this, Mayorkas denied that Biden’s modifications have inspired the present migrant surge.

“What we are seeing is the result of President Trump’s dismantlement of the safe and orderly immigration processes that were built over many, many years by presidents of both parties,” Mayorkas mentioned. “That’s what we are seeing, and that’s why it’s taking time for us to execute our plans to administer the humanitarian claims of vulnerable children. That’s what this is about.”

The unidentified migrant featured in the ABC interview spoke with Raddatz on the border in Tucson, Arizona, saying he traveled from Brazil to Mexico along with his spouse and their three children with the hope of getting into the U.S.

“Would you have tried to do this when Donald Trump was president?” Raddatz asks the person in a clip aired Sunday and tweeted by Steve Guest, a particular advisor to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

“Definitely not,” replies the migrant, who requested that his face not be proven.

“Did you come here because Joe Biden was elected president?” Raddatz asks.

“Basically,” he says.

MIGRANT SAYS HE CAME TO US BORDER BECAUSE BIDEN WAS ELECTED

In another clip, a migrant who traveled from Guatemala together with her 10-year-old son tells Raddatz in Juarez, Mexico, that she made the journey now as a result of “Biden promised that we could cross with minors.”

Trump took goal at what he known as Mayorkas’ “pathetic, clueless performance” on Sunday evening, writing in a press release that even somebody of Mayorkas’ restricted talents ought to perceive that if you present Catch-and-Release to the world’s illegal aliens then the entire world will come.”

The White House could not immediately be reached for comment. 

Fox News’ Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.